30.7.2017
In the Finals, both stow and pick needed to be performed by the robotic
system. Our robot stored 14 of the 16 items provided in a tote into our
storage system, where additional 16 items were placed manually before.
Afterwards, it picked eight of the possible nine requested items and
placed them in the target card boxes. This resulted in 235
points,
second only to ACRV from Australia, who reached 272 points. The missing
ninth item – a mesh cup made from thin wires – was grasped by one of
the manipulators, but then put back into the storage system due to a
failed weight check.

29.7.2017
Our team had a great run in the Picking task evaluation. All requested
items were picked and placed successfully in the three target card
boxes. The score reached was 245, second only to team Nanyang
(Singapore, score 257).

28.7.2017
After recovering from a
serious system breakdown, which
occurred due to an electrical short cut, our system performed the Stow
task evaluation. The task was to stow items provided chaotically in a
tote into the storage system. Due to an issue in the weight file, the
measured weights of the picked objects were inconsistent with the
expected weights and the manipulators kept dropping the picked items
back into the tote, resulting in a score of only 20 points.

27.7.2017
In the official practice run, our team reached the top score (150),
followed by team IFL PiRo (KIT, Germany, 140), and team Nanyang (Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore, 120). Teams could chose the
practice task and the scores do not count towards the competition
results. The score is promising, but there is still room for
improvement.

26.7.2017
Our system performed some practice runs. Many items were
sucessfully
picked and placed, but there is still much room for improvement.

25.7.2017
Our team arrived at the RoboCup venue in Nagoya, Japan, and started to
assemble and set-up the developed robotic system. Our system consist of
two Universal Robots UR5 manipulators which are equipped with a
flexible suction finger and a second finger for pinch grasps, RGB-D
gantry sensors consisting of a Nikon DSLR camera and a Photoneo® PhoXi®
3D Scanner XL, a GPU server with four NVidia Titan GPUs, and scales
below totes and boxes.
This year, as final the Stow and Pick has been added, where the robotic
system must pick the items that it stored before. Teams can design
their own storage system, subject to space restrictions. The density of
items in the tote and the storage systems has been increased. Maybe the
most challenging aspect is that not all items are known in advance,
but half of the items are introduced to the system only few minutes
before the competition run.

In the Picking task, our robot picked 10 of the 12 items from
the shelf and placed them in the tote. It received 97 points, coming in
third in the overall ranking, next to TU Delft and the Japanese Team
PFN.

1.7.2016

Our team came in second in the Stowing task of the Amazon
Picking Challenge, next only to the team of TU Delft. All but one
object has been stowed.

30.6.2016

We used our practice run for the Stowing task. Our system was
working quite well. NimbRo recived 123 points, followed by Duke (15
points) and MIT (10 points).

29.6.2016

Our team made good progress in setting up the robot for the
challenge. Here is a first video of picking from the tote.

Our team NimbRo Picking is qualified for the Amazon Picking
Challenge 2016, which will take place June 28th - July
3rd,
2016 at Leipziger Messe, colocated with RoboCup
2016. The challenge tasks consist of picking a large
variety of objects from a shelf and placing them in a tote, and of
picking unordered objects from a tote and stowing them in the
shelf.